Product Description

Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 expands the series' trademark fluid, dynamic gameplay mechanics to deliver a thoroughly entertaining and competitive game that captures all the tension, skill and intensity of world-class international cricket.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3150 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Codemasters
• Released on: 2007-03-23
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Manufacturer's Description:
Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 expands the series’ trademark fluid, dynamic gameplay mechanics to deliver a thoroughly entertaining and competitive game that captures all the tension, skill and intensity of world-class international cricket. Thanks to the official ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 content, Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 features licensed players, including world cricket stars Andrew Flintoff, Ricky Ponting, Mahendra Dhoni, Muttiah Muralitharan and of course, Brian Lara himself.

In addition to players, the game leads with a dedicated ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 mode featuring all the official teams, stadia, kits and equipment of the tournament. Further modes include a fully licensed ICC Champions’ Trophy competition and exhibition matches including One Day Games, Test Matches and exciting 20-over run fests. When you want to get competitive for real, Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 delivers online competitive play on PC (LAN and online) and Xbox Live.

Brian Lara International Cricket 2007 adds extra depth to the series’ complete batting, bowling and fielding experience whilst retaining its trademark accessible playability. The acclaimed batting play sees the introduction of subtle edges, sweepshots and the ability to use your feet to dance down wicket and smash the ball over the boundary for six.

Bowling sees a much-improved set of delivery types, thanks to changes in the way the ball swings in the air and reacts off the pitch, showcasing Shane Warne’s huge variation of spinning deliveries and Steve Harmison’s raw pace and even reverse swing as the ball degrades. In Fielding, there’s a new reflex-testing slip catch system and players can now be run out at both ends and be stumped by alert wicket keepers.

A striking advancement is the photo-realistic visuals; with hundreds of real player likenesses being modelled in high detail, complete with animated facial expressions to capture the intensity and emotion of international cricket. Stadia, including all eight official World Cup venues, have also been created with a new level of textured detail and they make use of proprietary shader technology for realistic, subtle and changing lighting effects, such as time of day and weather.

Customer Reviews

Irritating flaws ruin promising game
When I bought this game, I was hoping for a challenging and realistic game of international cricket.

But I soon came across two or three flaws - both in game play and functionality - which seriously harmed my enjoyment of the game.

Test cricket has been neglected. There is no option to play a test series, for example. All you can do is play a one-off exhibition match, or take part in a league. I find this really disappointing. Why exclude such a big part of cricket?

As is usually the case in these games, there is an issue with licensing and player names.

The World Cup and Champions Trophy start with real player names, but these soon turn fake when you reload a saved game. Test matches have fake names from the start.

Unfortunately, there is no editor to change the names.

Moving on to game play. When the wicket keeper receives the ball from a fielder, he'll whip off the bails and appeal for a run out - regardless of where the batsman is. My batsman was stood in his crease counting the spectators and the opposition keeper appealed for a run out!

When this happens over and over again, it really detracts from the cricket. It is ridiculous, utterly tedious, and is totally inexcusable how a game can be released with this fault. It begs the question: was this game even tested?

It is a shame because the game does have promise: for example, the graphics are crisp, the hawk eye technology is innovative, and bowlers like Shoaib Akhtar bowl in their own, different style, which is a nice touch.

The fielding controls make the game extra challenging - you have to think quickly and go for catches, and time your throw correctly and you might just force that run out.

So overall, a promising game, but with serious flaws. I have read reviews for other cricket games - including EA's Cricket 2007 - and they all seem to follow the same pattern - silly, irritating faults which haven't been ironed out, and gaping holes in functionality.

Small details can make or break a game. Why do developers continue to overlook these things? Most of these games appear before an Ashes series or the World Cup, so perhaps they just rush out what they can...

Frustrating!!!!
Much the same as other reviews really, a decent cricket game, but with some huge flaws!!

its just not challenging enough, il leave out the wicket keeper stumpings etc, as other reviews have covered that.

my biggest problem is the ease of the game!

even on the harderst level, its just to easy!

On test level i thought i had it figured, took a while but got the aussies out for 450, and took about about 3.5hours to do so.
but then i managed to get the needed runs in about 20 overs, with no wickets!!! to easy!

but usually you can get any team out for less that 100runs.

and dont get me started on the fielding, to make a catch is very difficult, esecially if you have slow reactions like me, its nigh on impossible! and when fielders throw the ball and miss the stumps, they just stand and watch the ball roll away, giving away more runs!

overall a half decent game, better if the batting was harder, and the other glitches were sorted out!

Best Cricket game ever.....(But then it would be)
This is definatly the best cricket game ever made, but you have to realise that there is no competition in the way of next gen cricket games so therefore, it easy beats any PS2 conterparts hands-down.

Firstly, gameplay. As it always is in Brain Lara games, it is a batsmans paradise, boudaries come easily and racking up 500 runs in a test match is no hard job, even on some of the harder dificulties. Bowling, however, is greatly improved, the controls and generics of bowling are esentially the same as BLIC 2005 PS2, howver, more refined. The inclusion of a autoplay mode also helps to move things along more quickly in those long test matches. However, same old un lincensed players in exhibition mode and only lincenced ICC tournaments have the real names.

Secondly graphics, these are greatly improved on the old PS2 version (as you would expect), especially in HD, the players actually look like the real thing for once. However,with the amzing graphics of Tom clancy rainbow six and call of duty 3, you would expect a little more, but a good 8/10 anyway.

Thirdly, the inclusion of xbox live makes this the first online cricket game ever. That is, if you can find anyone to play! With the inclusion of online tournoments and 20/20 games, however, that will surely attract a large crowd.

Overall, this is an excellent game which as evolved over the years into a highly refined and much more enjoyable game with many great new features. I highly reccomend this game, even if you are not a die-hard cricket fan. This is a great game to play if you are need of a bit of fun.